Nagios Core Administration Cookbook

Running a service on all hosts in a group

In this recipe, we'll create a new service, but instead of applying it to an existing host, we'll apply it to an existing hostgroup. In this case, we'll create a group called webservers. The steps for this are very similar to adding a service for just one host; only one directive is different.

Getting ready

You should have a working Nagios Core 3.0 or better server running, with a web interface. You should be familiar with adding services to individual hosts.

You should also have at least one hostgroup defined, with at least one host in it; we'll use a group called webservers, with the hosts sparta.naginet and athens.naginet defined in it.

For reference, here is the hostgroup definition and the definitions ...